Surveillance of acute respiratory infections in El-Mina University Hospital within one year [clinico-epidemiological study]

ABSTRACT

Seven thous and s and fourteen children less than five years old with acute respiratory infections [ARI] were surveyed over a period of one year [1993]. ARI occurred in all seasons of the year and the seasonal incidence was 25.5% in winter, 15.4% in spring, 10.8% in summer and 17.8% in autumn. The relative frequency of each diagnosis among the total ARI cases was no pneumonia [cough or cold] 54.80%, pneumonia [not severe] 22.12%, severe pneumonia 3.76%, very severe illness 0.52%, acute otitis media 3.35%, suspected acute streptococcal sore throat 8.55% and bronchial asthma 6.9%